Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Loch Achray | | Loch Achray | | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | (From The Lady of the Lake)
THE MINSTREL came once more to view | |
| The eastern ridge of Benvenue, | |
| For ere he parted, he would say | |
| Farewell to lovely Loch Achray,— | |
| Where shall he find, in foreign land, | 5 |
| So lone a lake, so sweet a strand!— | |
| There is no breeze upon the fern, | |
| No ripple on the lake, | |
| Upon her eyry nods the erne, | |
| The deer has sought the brake; | 10 |
| The small birds will not sing aloud, | |
| The springing trout lies still, | |
| So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud, | |
| That swathes, as with a purple shroud, | |
| Benledi’s distant hill. | 15 | | | |
|
|
